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Singers, musicians and others representing numerous churches in Spencer County, joined their talents this weekend to present the annual Tree of Life at Taylorsville First Baptist Church.

The annual event, directed again this year by Joy Thompson, brings volunteers from various churches together to share the Christmas story in song. The church was packed for several shows all weekend, with Sunday evening’s 8 p.m. final performance attracting a standing room only crowd with spectators from all around.

Risen Lord Lutheran Church is having a mid-week advent service on Wednesdays starting at 7 p.m. with a soup supper prior to the service starting at 6 p.m. Risen Lord Lutheran is located at 5138 Taylorsville Road, Taylorsville. If you have any questions, please contact the church at 477-6557.

I know it isn’t even December yet, but do you feel it? The holiday season is upon us in full strength. Some TV networks are running Christmas programming 24 hours a day. The stores have had trees and decorations up since before Halloween. I’m exhausted already.

Volunteers from at least six different churches took part in serving the Community Thanksgiving Meal on Wednesday evening at Taylorsville Community Church. The free meal featured turkey and all the trimmings and was an outreach effort by the area churches.

There will be a free Thanksgiving Meal served at Taylorsville Community Church as several local congregations are coming together to provide the meal on Wednesday, November 23 from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. In addition to the free meal, there will also be complimentary family portraits taken. The church is located at 402 Garrard Street.

Thanksgiving sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? But it isn’t always, is it? Circumstances may make it hard to give thanks. Maybe this year was a bad year and everything went wrong. You know, like those old country songs where everything goes wrong and even your dog runs away!

Do you remember playing tag when you were a kid? Running away from whoever was “it,” or trying to catch anyone you could if you were “it.” Fun for the fast kids, a little harder for those of us who were a little slower.

One day I was playing tag with my cousins on their farm. I was “it,” and chased my cousin around a little stable and ran right into a plow. My cousin had known the plow was there and turned the right way to miss it, but I plowed right into it.

Nearly a decade ago, Donna Tarrant got the bad news from her doctor that the cancer in her bones would likely prove fatal within three years. Many would have accepted such a diagnosis as a directive to prepare to die. Tarrant received it as a license to live.